-=rjh=- wrote:
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_...o_with_eBay_Microsoft_Left_Outside_Alone.html
>>
>>
>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>>
>
> Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you find
> that?
>
> ..ah, Slashdot again.
>
> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft *isn't*
> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
> real fast.
>
> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.

shannon wrote:
> -=rjh=- wrote:
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_...o_with_eBay_Microsoft_Left_Outside_Alone.html
>>>
>>>
>>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>>>
>>
>> Very good, from a Romanian website, too I see. How on earth did you
>> find that?
>>
>> ..ah, Slashdot again.
>>
>> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft *isn't*
>> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
>> real fast.
>>
>> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.
>
> http://www.live.com/

It is continually improving - when I mentioned it here a couple of
months ago I said it was an embarrassment to MS, but they've come a long
way.

It is better than Google (not google search, though), but I still prefer
Protopage and Fold looks great, too.

But I hate the search results, prefer to navigate a page at a time, in a
page size I specify. That way I can go do something in other tabs while
the search results are loading, in live you have to be reading the page
while the results are loading, and this will be a real pain on dialup.
MS don't get tabbed browsing at all.

The thing that really annoys me about the large company startpages is
that they don't offer any easy way to add your own content, they assume
that people are only interested in having information pushed to them
over the net, which is sad.

-=rjh=- wrote:
> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft isn't
> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
> real fast.
>
> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.

That the story appears to be true doesn't cause you any concern whatever.

On a pleasant day while strolling in nz.comp, a person by the name of
s.te.v.e. exclaimed:
> >
> > "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
> > complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>
> They'll buy Dell.

Hehe, I hope they try. Imagine the outcry from the other PC "makers"
(branders). Even the US antitrust laws might have to be dusted off for
that one.

--
aaronl at consultant dot com
For every expert, there is an equal and
opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke

Maybe the real news is Google and Dell. If they take their alliance
further, maybe Google can work with Dell as a manufacturer/distributor
for a startup that Google bought last year, called Android. Andy Rubin
is involved along with other high profile developers who have a
background in non-PC devices so it may be worth watching what happens there.

s.te.v.e. wrote:
> -=rjh=- wrote:
>
>> If you are going to start reporting all the deals Microsoft isn't
>> involved in, as well as the ones it is, this is going to get tedious
>> real fast.
>>
>> It is going to drive you crazy. Get help.
>
> That the story appears to be true doesn't cause you any concern whatever.

What story? That MS didn't do a deal with somebody? How can it be true
or not true if nothing actually happened?

The article is just an opinion piece - not a story at all. It is a
concern that MS *not* doing something can be considered news. It shows
how hung up on MS everybody is, and that is bad - but exactly what MS
wants. Ignore them and maybe they'll go away. There is so much happening
that MS has nothing to do with and time is better spent focusing on that.

Tea's constant carping at MS only reinforces the fact that they are or
are not doing anything. No such thing as bad publicity, etc.
>
> Good......complacency is important in ending MS's monopoly.

I don't understand. If we are are complacent, how are we going to end
MS' monopoly?

"-=rjh=-" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_...o_with_eBay_Microsoft_Left_Outside_Alone.html
>>
>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>
> Ignore the MS issue here because it isn't important.
>
> Maybe the real news is Google and Dell. If they take their alliance
> further, maybe Google can work with Dell as a
> manufacturer/distributor for a startup that Google bought last year,
> called Android. Andy Rubin is involved along with other high profile
> developers who have a background in non-PC devices so it may be
> worth watching what happens there.

In the war over who's going to control portals and market share, why
would anyone be interested in taking sides? Most of the RSS feeds on
these kind of issues are planted by people with a vested interest in
the share price of whoever it is they happen to be touting (or dumping
on). Fine, if you're into that sort of thing. But I can't for the life
of me figure out any other reason to take notice.

impossible wrote:
> "-=rjh=-" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>>> http://www.playfuls.com/news_02733_...o_with_eBay_Microsoft_Left_Outside_Alone.html
>>>
>>> "" All these changes in the Portal Wars leave Microsoft facing a
>>> complicated question: who are they going to ally with? ""
>> Ignore the MS issue here because it isn't important.
>>
>> Maybe the real news is Google and Dell. If they take their alliance
>> further, maybe Google can work with Dell as a
>> manufacturer/distributor for a startup that Google bought last year,
>> called Android. Andy Rubin is involved along with other high profile
>> developers who have a background in non-PC devices so it may be
>> worth watching what happens there.
>
> In the war over who's going to control portals and market share, why
> would anyone be interested in taking sides?

My comment wasn't about taking sides or market share, it was more about
a new toy to play with, and where that technology might appear.

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:17:52 -0400, impossible wrote:
>
>> But I can't for the life
>> of me figure out any other reason to take notice.
>
> How about the two high principles of Open Standards and Freedom of
> Software?
>

Capitalizing a phrase doesn't make it a high principle. Google's deal
with Dell, and Yahoo's deal with eBay, are about money. When Microsoft
makes its next deal with some vendor or portal, the same principle
will apply.

On Tue, 30 May 2006 08:51:14 -0400, impossible wrote:
> "Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
> news...
>> On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:17:52 -0400, impossible wrote:
>>
>>> But I can't for the life
>>> of me figure out any other reason to take notice.
>>
>> How about the two high principles of Open Standards and Freedom of
>> Software?
>>
>
> Capitalizing a phrase doesn't make it a high principle. Google's deal
> with Dell, and Yahoo's deal with eBay, are about money. When Microsoft
> makes its next deal with some vendor or portal, the same principle
> will apply.

What about the two high principles of Open Standards and Freedom of
Software?

Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 08:51:14 -0400, impossible wrote:
>
>> "Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
>> news...
>>> On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:17:52 -0400, impossible wrote:
>>>
>>>> But I can't for the life
>>>> of me figure out any other reason to take notice.
>>>
>>> How about the two high principles of Open Standards and Freedom of
>>> Software?
>>>
>>
>> Capitalizing a phrase doesn't make it a high principle. Google's
>> deal
>> with Dell, and Yahoo's deal with eBay, are about money. When
>> Microsoft
>> makes its next deal with some vendor or portal, the same principle
>> will apply.
>
> What about the two high principles of Open Standards and Freedom of
> Software?
>
>

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